The Ballon d'Or 2025 is set to be one of the highlights of the calendar, as the biggest individual prize in football rolls around once more.
Conceived by French outlet France Football in 1956, England's very own Stanley Matthews scooped the inaugural award – and shockingly, no Blackpool player has lifted the gong since. 2025 will mark 30 years since non-Europeans were first eligible to win the award – while in the years that have followed, there's been drama, outright robberies and a Messi-Ronaldo stranglehold on the voting.
